Fiber Optics

Fiberguide and Micron Optics partner to manufacture improved FBG fiber-optic sensors

Aug. 29, 2017

Fiberguide partnered with Micron to manufacture their line of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) optical sensors.

Fiberguide Industries and Micron Optics are partnering to improve FBG-based fiber-optic sensors.

Optical fiber and assembly specialist Fiberguide Industries (Stirling, NJ) has partnered with sensing expert Micron Optics (Atlanta, GA) to manufacture their line of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) optical sensors. The sensors are ideal for distributed sensing of stress, temperature, strain, displacement and acceleration on machinery, equipment, planes, buildings, bridges and other devices and structures.

The sensors are a product of a Micron Optics design, and Fiberguide's construction expertise and process refinement. Bragg gratings written inside the sensors’ optical fiber core behave like mirrors that reflect light at a specific wavelength based on the periodicity of the grating.

Exposure to strain or temperature causes a shift in the reflected wavelength, proportional to the change in strain or temperature. Unlike commonly used electrical sensors, fiber Bragg sensors are not susceptible to signal degradation caused by long distances or electromagnetic interference.

FBG-based optical sensors are compact for installation into small spaces. The sensors can also be multiplexed, allowing many sensors for multiple signals and locations in a single optical fiber.

SOURCE: Fiberguide Industries via Halma; http://halmapr.com/news/fiberguide/2017/08/29/fiberguide-partners-with-micron-optics-to-provide-fiber-bragg-grating-optical-sensors/

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Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.